Regulations on Financial Matters: Part 4 University continuation charge

1. A candidate admitted to graduate research study (that is, a student for the D.Phil., D.Eng., D.M., M.Litt., M.Sc.(Res), or any other programme of study designated as a research programme) who commenced their current programme of study in or after September 2011 and who has reached the end of the period of fee liability, as defined at Part 1, cl. 5, and who thereafter remains registered as a graduate research student, shall pay a continuation charge for each subsequent term up to and including the term in which the thesis is submitted. Candidates whose thesis has been referred back shall pay no further fees or continuation charge, but shall pay the fee prescribed in Part 7 below when they apply for re-examination.

2. A student who is paying fees in respect of any given term shall not be liable for a continuation charge in the same term.

3. The continuation charge rate is reviewed on an annual basis and the rate for the current academic year is available from www.ox.ac.uk/students/fees-funding/fees/liability/graduate-continuation-charge or from the Planning and Council Secretariat. Divisions may remit the continuation charge (subject to approval by Council’s Planning and Resource Allocation Committee) for graduate research students on a specified course or courses of study, provided that the remission applies to all students on that course in a specified term or terms of study.